Keywords: remote sensing

Utilizing remote sensing technology for land cover mapping in peatland areas

SUMMARY Sarawak peatland covers 1.64 million hectares (ha). Up-to-date land cover information for peat areas is urgently needed to...

Combination of PALSAR-2 and SPOT-6 images for estimating aboveground biomass of swamp ecosystem in Malaysia

SUMMARY Aboveground biomass (AGB) is one of the key parameters important for carbon accounting in a forest ecosystem. However,...

Locating and delineating peatlands and organic soils in the tropics

SUMMARY Deforestation and drainage of organic soils stop their ability to sequester carbon and lead to the emission of...

Remote sensing as a tool for mapping and evaluating peatlands and peatland carbon stock in northern Finland

SUMMARY The rates of greenhouse gas fluxes in northern peatlands are a sum of complex interactions between climate, temperature,...

Use of Remote Sensing to Inventory Mountain Peatlands in Lesotho

Theme V. Restoration, rehabilitation and after-use of disturbed peatlands SUMMARY Remote sensing is the only practical means of conducting...